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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

MEXICANS MURDERING LEGALS in AMERICA'S OPEN BORDERS: How Suspected Murderer and Criminally Convicted ILLEGAL PABLO A. SERRANO-VITORINO Avoided Deportation - HOW MANY OF THESE THUGS ARE STILL ON THE LOSE?

Relatives of victims in a quadruple homicide in
Kansas last week hose off blood from their porch as investigators
searched for the shooting suspect, Pablo A. Serrano-Vitorino, a
once-deported man from Mexico who was living in the U.S. illegally.
(Photo: David Eulitt/TNS/Newscom)

Before Pablo A. Serrano-Vitorino
became the suspect in a murder spree across two states, the man, a
once-deported Mexican living in the United States illegally, was
convicted of multiple crimes, across different agencies, but still free.

Serrano-Vitorino’s case involved a series of errors that kept him
from being detained by federal immigration authorities, and from facing
another deportation last year when he should have been removed from the
country.
His case, experts say, showcases the precise communication required
between local law enforcement agencies, and U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), in order to keep tabs on criminally-convicted
immigrants living in the country illegally — and how the slightest
misstep could lead to tragedy.
“It should not be only ICE’s responsibility to make sure
criminally-convicted aliens get on the path to deportation,” said
Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies. “It is too big of
a job. It sounds like there was an earlier opportunity for this guy to
be in custody, and a combination of local agencies not stepping up to
report him, and ICE missing the opportunity they had to deport him, gave
this man the opportunity to commit these horrific crimes.”

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Last week, Serrano-Vitorino, 40, was charged
with four counts of first-degree murder for a shooting in Kansas City,
Kan. Serrano-Vitorino was also charged with murder in the death of a
fifth man in a separate shooting across the Kansas border in Missouri.
After a manhunt, Serrano-Vitorino was arrested and he is being held at
Montgomery County Jail in Missouri.In a statement to the media, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
acknowledged it should have detained Serrano-Vitorino before these
incidents occurred.Series of Errors
In September 2015, Serrano-Vitorino went to court in Overland Park,
Kan., to pay a fine for driving without a license, for which he was
charged with a misdemeanor and plead guilty, according to Officer
Richard Breshears of the Overland Park Police Department.
He was fingerprinted at the court, and his criminal record was
sufficient for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to submit a detainer
requesting Serrano-Vitorino to be held.
But the federal immigration agency accidently issued the detainer to
Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, instead of the court, allowing
Serrano-Vitorino to be released.
“Talking with our court, they had never received a detainer before he
showed up in court or after,” Breshears told The Daily Signal. “In
addition, our office was never aware of his status in this country
because the courts never received a detainer.”
Breshears speculated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement may
have mistakenly sent the detainer to Johnson County Sheriff’s Office
since it has a jail where Serrano-Vitorino would presumably be in
custody.

Pablo A. Serrano-Vitorino (Photo: Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office)

The police department and the court, which are both in Johnson County
but are under the jurisdiction of the City of Overland Park, do not
have a jail.
An official with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, meanwhile, said
they have no record of receiving a detainer for Serrano-Vitorino.
“We don’t know if someone sent a detainer because he wasn’t in our
custody,” Deputy Claire Young told The Daily Signal. “He was never, ever
in our custody so we don’t have documents or paperwork for him to even
look back on.”Long Criminal History
This was not the first time Serrano-Vitorino had come into contact with law enforcement in the U.S.
He first entered the country illegally in 1993, an Immigration and
Customs Enforcement official told The Daily Signal. The official said
Serrano-Vitorino was ordered deported in 2002.
The next year, the official said, Serrano-Vitorino was convicted in
California of making a terrorist threat, a felony, and sentenced to two
years in prison. He was deported in April 2004.
He illegally came to the U.S. again sometime afterwards on an unknown date.
From there, in November 2014, Serrano-Vitorino emerged on law
enforcement’s radar when he was convicted of a misdemeanor for driving
under the influence in Coffey County, Kan.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement says it did not know
Serrano-Vitorino was in the country at the time and that the Coffey
County Sheriff’s Office did not notify the federal agency that it had
him in custody.
The Coffey Sheriff’s Office declined to comment for this story.While some law enforcement agencies
don’t always notify federal authorities of illegal immigrant cases that
aren’t felonies, the Department of Homeland Security’s new rules
governing detention and removal of illegal immigrants state
that those convicted of a “significant misdemeanor,” which the agency
says includes driving under the influence, should be a priority for
deportation.In November 2014, President Barack Obama, as part of his executive actions on immigration, issued a directive
to end a controversial program called Secure Communities that required
local law enforcement to hold illegal immigrants they arrested for
deportation.
The program, created in 2008 under President George W. Bush and
expanded by Obama, was criticized for punishing immigrants arrested of
less serious crimes, like minor traffic violations.Under the new policy, called the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP),
federal immigration officials are directed to issue detainers for those
in country illegally who have been convicted of serious offenses or
those who pose a risk to national security.In addition, the new program mandates
that Immigration and Customs Enforcement no longer ask law enforcement
agencies to hold somebody in custody to be picked up for deportation
beyond the period when they would normally be released.
Instead, local authorities are only supposed to notify Immigration
and Customs Enforcement when they plan to release someone who federal
officials have requested information on.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, however, can still issue a
detainer if they believe they have probable cause to deport an illegal
immigrant who has been arrested, even if they haven’t been convicted.
Serrano-Vitorino, meanwhile, was arrested again last June on a domestic battery charge in Wyandotte County in Kansas.
According to an official from the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office,
per its internal procedure dealing with anybody it arrests who is born
outside the U.S, the agency notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement
that it had Serrano-Vitorino in custody.
Lieutenant Kelli Bailiff of the sheriff’s office said the agency
gives federal immigration authorities four hours to respond about
whether they want more information on the person in custody.Because Immigration and Customs
Enforcement did not respond in that time frame, Serrano-Vitorino was
released, Bailiff said. The official from Immigrations and Customs
Enforcement told The Daily Signal that they could not verify
Serrano-Vitorino’s identity because he was released from custody before
the federal agency could take action. The New York Times reported that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement never received Serrano-Vitorino’s fingerprints.
The Priority Enforcement Program, like Secure Communities before it,
requires law enforcement agencies to submit fingerprints to the FBI for
criminal background checks. That information is then sent to Immigration
and Customs Enforcement, so federal officials can determine if the
person is a priority for removal.
Bailiff said her agency followed that directive, as it always does for anybody it books.
She speculated that maybe Immigrations and Customs Enforcement didn’t
get the results of the FBI check until after the four hour response
window expired — and Serrano-Vitorino was already released.
Bailiff said Wyandotte County would have provided fingerprints
directly to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement if they had asked for
it.
“Normally what happens is if they are interested in a person, they
send a query and maybe call us, or they may send someone to interview
that person or ask for more information like fingerprints,” Bailiff
said. “We wait for direction from them, and they did not respond at
all.”
Bailiff said that the situation may have been made more confusing
because Serrano-Vitorino did not provide his full name to Wyandotte
County. He identified himself as Pablo Serrano, she said.
“The information is only as good as what we are provided from the
person we are booking,” Bailiff said. “If the person lies to us, we send
ICE the info the person gave us.”Who’s to Blame?
No matter who’s to blame, Republicans in Congress and critics of
federal immigration policy are looking for answers on Serrano-Vitorino’s
case.On Monday, Rep. Bob Goodlatte of
Virginia and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the chairs of the House and
Senate Judiciary Committees, wrote a letter
to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson asking for “a more thorough
understanding of how this violent offender evaded immigration
authorities and removal from the United States.”

Specifically, they ask if Serrano-Vitorino should have been a
priority for removal under the Obama administration’s new Priority
Enforcement Program.
“I think ultimately the responsibility in this case is with ICE
because they sent the [September 2015] detainer to the wrong place, but I
think this is a lesson for all local law enforcement agencies that they
need to be on the ball because they are the ones who end up picking up
the pieces when more crimes are committed,” said Vaughan of the Center
for Immigration Studies.
Bailiff of the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office defended her agency’s relationship with federal immigration authorities.
“We have a good relationship with ICE, and it’s not unusual for them
to call us and ask for more information or send someone right away,”
Bailiff said. “They do respond many times to our queries.”
Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute,
believes the mistakes around Serrano-Vitorino’s case do not reflect a
problem with policy, but rather were a function of a bureaucratic
failure.
“It’s really a lot of administrative snafus combined,” Nowrasteh told
The Daily Signal. “It’s not like there’s a policy to release these
people on the local level, and clearly not at the federal level. It just
sounds like a complex bureaucratic screw-up made possible by an overly
complicated system.”